Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-14
ODD THINGS M NEW YORK,
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Seught by Cumnings and On nIB.

AlLiosARt hkRxrrs or rBK INTERCOLLEGIATE WHO
NEVER SMILE AND ARE ALWAYS ,IoNp-roxTuSEs
IN MACS AND BoSEs-THE ITALIANS WHO s.TSlns
THE GARBAGE AND ASH scows
Special Correspondents OF TIE rvrsrSa s-,p
NEw YORK, May II
feel sorry at times for the men who are always
| alone have no doubt that they would resent
| such sentiment on my part but they are such
| mourntui and forsaken looking beings as they
wander desolately about the streets OF a crowded.
city, that they inspire pity In spite OF the airs Of
hauteur and eNclusiveness which they tnyar,ahly
| assume. have known one man by sight for ten
years who never by any chance speaks ar toys n
any one, and who is yet a freduenter OF the thea
ters the opera and the cafe and POSSESSES an am
pie fortune. He passed me In A ghostlike manner
one night In Delmonico's a stood by the side of
one OF those agreeable young society men who
know everybody on earth. NJ companion srar,,d
after the melancholy arrival ana said shortly.
That's Thompsons bruther-Thompson. OF ths
Union club, YOU know. He's always alone Hes
SO Internally blase that all his friends hav IN aten
him. and now rather fancy he's irving Ia shake
himself Al least he wanders up and down with
the expression OF a man who would give every
thing on earth IL he could only set away fron
himself, II only for half an hour
BIAsE HERMIT.
Thompson's beard is trimmed TO a shan, point
MS mustache is waNed upward, and he wears a
large single glass without any string I haye
sometimes thought that It would be- inn,,ss,,le 90
dislodge the glass with a hammer He starss with
mearied melancholy al every face he meets. and
steas along With stealthy aud limping gait Hls
attire Is Invariably OF the most fashi0uahe fut
and his horses, traps and grooms unexcepiionaIlt
eo,nr ne IL member OF six clubs but never
another solitary who has attracted my etten-
zion at various periods during the pasf firtee.
& nas no o'her ann IN life than the care OF his
ualiS as lar as L can see l have known him %
spend three hours over an elaborate dinner AT
Delmonlcos and then. after pulling his char under
PsrticularH bright light, labor with gentle
asslduity at his nails with a ieWeiei knife ,lntIl
O'CLOCK IN the morning Then with AN aDrr,vtn.r
gls, uI ne would give the waiter liberal UP,
pour down stunning slug OF whisky and wander
sedately home. lie walks Ike a drum ma,or "a
perhaps nfty years or age and is a model of court
esy ana proprety In public places but he never by
any chance speaks 10 a man or acknowledres the
saiuation Oh walter policeman. clerk or pa.sser-by
SOLEMN BROKER.
Another man who is apparently too weary OF the
world TO take the slightest interest In anything
that is going on around him is heavy broad. ana
solemn broker-if one can fancy a solemn broker.
VINO hedges himself about with the most extra.
ordinary barriers 10 prevent people approaching
MIN III is said that no man has ever gained access
10 MS inner ofhce In Wall street. and the Junior
members OF the firm transact all the necessary
puphc business AT stated hour he drives down
In closed brougham. enters by a side door and
drives up town again when his work for the day Is
finished. AT O'Clock precisely he stools" mag
hincenty appointed tandem through the park
Win only morose groom for a companion He
has twelve or fourteen horses In his stable ana M
least TWO or them are famous. lie is, besides this
man OF large property, and yet he never I'm his
daily drives Salutes a friend or foe. / have seen
him enter his box at the opera and SIT alone in
solemn magnincence with an unmoved face and
iusterieSs eye, while 5000 people were shouting
themselves hoarse over the singing OF a great
prlma donna on the stage below him He invari-
ably left after the principal solo, TO avoid the
crowd.
IL would be interesting TO know the causes that
nave leo such men as these TO isolate themselves
SO thoroughly from the rest OF mankind for they
are absolute hermits In the midst OF the busiest
hlve OF men In America. ! know dozen BY sight
ana name who are well connected nd well known
put VINO are absolute strangers ID all other men IA
New York. They surround themselves with an
icy reserve that nothing ever meits and pass
Through life the millionaire herInts OF a crowded
metropolis. BLAKeIy HAL